Agreed. Also, when a question or problem is posed, answer it as fully as you can. A full answer may cover bases they hadn't thought of, or mention resourses they didn't know about, or events unknown, (such as that summer management hunt)

The only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker is observation. All the same data is present for both. The rest is understanding what you are seeing.

rthomas4 wrote:It is important that existing regular members take time to recognize and welcome those new members who do post questions, or just post an introductory comment. Often the simple fact of recognizing those new members helps ease their introduction to the site and bolsters their enthusiasm not only to hunting, but also to participating in the various threads where they are comfortable contributing their thoughts and knowledge.

GOOD ADVICE but I have read some responses on here that were quite unfriendly to some new posters and have not seen them on here since. My observation

Ohio farms wrote:I checked this stat and was kind of shocked.In the last week 200 people have signed up and joined this forum. Out of those 200 only 13 posts were made with nobody posting more than twice. Are we that boring?

Ok, I admit I am bad about checking in like I should. I do enjoy the forum, there is no real reason why I don't check in daily.

One thing that took me awhile to pick up on when I started visiting here was the "unread posts" link... At first, I was going from the home page to the forum, and then opening each thread. After awhile, it got confusing as to which threads I had already read and was current on. Then I figured out the link that takes me to all of the posts I havne't yet read across all of the different pages...

That may be something that helps some of the newbies who may be still getting used to navigating the forum...

"When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God." ~Fred Bear

I usually check in on the forum every day and I normally just click on the "view todays posts" If someone has a post that I may have info for I will answer the post, but if someone has already answered with the same info I will leave it alone, no real need for repetition.

You know on the old site I was here a lot, but when it switched I really did not care for the format at all and let them know why I was leaving...then when I came back to say hi I saw all the spamming then the enter code..which sometimes doesn't work correctly. I miss many of you guys. The thing is, if a post is made and someone checks in and see's no one replying well gives ya a bit of a hint... If ppl have to constantly be fighting ,calling names, nit picking every thing . 40 pages of garbage that's not any fun either.